Women's Human Rights Resources
Rutgers University Libraries Resource: Global Women's Activism: Selected Sites
These sites represent entities devoted to worldwide women's activism. They include significant documents, UN affiliated NGOs, government agencies, academic institutions, research centers, as well as focus-specific organizations working on issues such as advocacy, empowerment, human rights, social justice, HIV/AIDS, prevention of violence against women, etc. Each site contains links to the organizations' publications and other online resources useful for investigations on women and gender. The list is arranged by continents and countries where the organizations are located and/or provide services. The category "Transnational" lists organizations and other entries with transnational and international scope. Relevant sites from different units at Rutgers University are also included. |
CWGL Archives
CWGL’s archives are available through Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, based in New Brunswick, NJ. Since CWGL’s founding in 1989, the Center has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, United Nations monitoring, global education endeavors, publications and a resource center. For those interested in CWGL’s past activities and significant involvement in UN world conferences, you can access files by contacting Special Collections directly. Please allow 1-2 days notice before your visit. For the list of files, click here.
Resources
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society is now available on-line in English, and will shortly be available in Russian, Arabic, Spanish and French. Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society is a new, user-friendly and authoritative publication on United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms – explaining how they work and exploring the many important ways that civil society actors including NGOs can contribute to their work.
Since the Handbook is a dynamic tool, and updates will be provided on the website, all feedback is welcomed by the Civil Society Unit (civilsocietyunit@ohchr.org).
- International Service for Human Rights (ISHR): Simple Guide to the Treaty Bodies
The Simple Guide aims to provide human rights defenders and their organisations with a broad overview of the UN human rights treaty body system and its functions in order to support their effective engagement with the treaty bodies in their own work. The Guide also contains other information that defenders may find useful, such as the relationship between the treaty bodies and other international human rights mechanisms, relevant developments related to the harmonisation of the working methods of the treaty bodies, and a glossary and e-resources for further reference.
Statements
Collaborations
- Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders, published by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development in collaboration with a group of women rights, human rights and sexual health advocates: http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf2007/book3Neo.pdf
- ‘Yogyakarta Principles’ a Milestone for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: Experts Set Out Global Standards for Sexual Rights and Gender Equality (Arabic, English, Español, Français, Polski, Български)
- Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders, full report of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders held on 29 November - 2 December 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This report documents the discussions and analyses of violations and abuses committed against women human rights defenders through a framework of four key sources of violations: state actors, non-state actors, family and community, sex and sexuality-based attacks. It also contains strategies and recommendations made by the participants to better protect women human rights defenders. http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf/WHRD-Proceedings.pdf
Background Reading
Research Tools
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